Who were the Titans? The Jötuns? The Fomorians? The giants of myth, legend and folklore? Some say they were the old gods remembered, others say they were fantasy, made up for stories. Here we take a look at giants and see why they were really in our myths.
We touch on the English Creation Myth, compare Germanic Folklore and Old Norse Mythology, compare different giants, and then examine the culture to see how they fit in? And so we can work out why giants exist, and where they came from. And then perhaps we can find the Lost Civilization of the Megalithic Sites: Who Built Them and When?
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References include;
Anonymous. The Poetic Edda. Translated by Carolyne Larrington. 2nd edition. Oxford: OUP Oxford, 2014.
Sturluson, Snorri. The Prose Edda. Breinigsville, PA: Benediction Classics, 2015.
Motz, Lotte. Giants in Folklore and Mythology - A New Approach. Folklore, Vol.93, No.1, pp.70-84. Taylor and Francis, 1982.
Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
1:47 Why do we have mythology?
6:14 Why are giants so complicated?
12:54 Are all giants the same?
23:23 Giants did exist
27:42 Who were the giants